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Interview with Bali Devi

Published 31st October 2004 In forests & wildlife, personalities, women Closed

Bali Devi Rana, Head of the Mahila Mangal Dal (Women Welfare Group) of village Reni (Chamoli Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India) has recently returned from the Global Women’s Conference on Environment, organized by UNEP at Nairobi (Kenya) on 11-13 October 2004, where she shared the inaugural stage with Nobel peace laureate Prof Wangari Maathai. In the 30-odd years since the Chipko Movement, Bali Devi is the first grassroots woman to have attended and addressed an international gathering abroad. The following are excerpts of interview with Bali Devi by UN consultants Irena Dankelman and Biju Negi at Nairobi. [more]